George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair, who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. Orwell is best known for his dystopian novel 1984 and his allegorical novella Animal Farm. Orwell's cultural influence continues to this day in the terms Orwellian, cold war, Big Brother, Thought Police, Room 101, Memory hole, doublethink, and thoughtcrime.